AN464       Half Unit     
Ethnography of a Selected Region

This information is for the 2013/14 session.

Teacher(s) responsible

TBA.

Availability

MSc Social Anthropology, MSc Anthropology and Development, MSc Anthropology and Development Management, MSc Law, Anthropology and Society. The course is also available as an outside option where programme regulations permit and with the approval of the teacher responsible.

Course content

The course will focus on one (or two) specific culture/ethnographic areas through an examination of classic and contemporary ethnographic works. Topics to be covered in relation to this specific area may include colonialism and post-colonialism; kinship, gender and personhood; custom/tradition, belief and practices and the social organisation of religion; power, unity and difference; hierarchy and egalitarianism; modern politics and the state; the impact of globalisation.

Teaching

Lectures weekly MT (10 x 1-hour), Classes weekly MT (10 x 1-hour).

Formative coursework

Anthropology students doing this course will submit essays to their tutors. Non-anthropology students will choose essay topics and submit them to the course teacher.

Indicative reading

To be announced.

Assessment

One two-hour examination in the summer term (100%).

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